Before Picasso, after Miro

BEFORE PICASSO: AFTER MIRO

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BEFORE PICASSO; AFTER M1RO

The aim of this exhibition is to illustrate the continuing
vitality of painting in Spain. The ivorld outside is familiar
with the contributions of Picasso and Miro and the bril-
liantly personal cubist realisations of Juan Gris. But these
are merely peaks of the range— peaks in our neighborhood.
And the range stretches back through Goya, through Velas-
quez, through Zurbaran and medieval Catalan painting to
the cave art of Altamira. In the twentieth century creativity
in Spanish painting has not been limited to two or three
internationally known artists. And today the work of the
younger painters promises a continuation of this contribu-
tion through expressions that are at once individual, rela-
tively independent of external influence and varied.

lsidro TSonell y Monturiol ivas born in Barcelona November
30, 1873. He spent the greater part of his life in that city,
except for brief sojourns in Paris and Madrid. In 1885 he
entered the academy of Jose Mirabent as a student of draw-
ing. From there he passed from the studios of Martinez
Altes and Luis Graner and finally to the Academy of Fine
Arts in the Casa Lonja under the academician Antonio Cuba.

NoneWs ivork was first exhibited in a group shoiv in May,
1893, ivhen four or five of his studies were described as the
best of the exhibition. In 1895 he exhibited with the Aca-

dentin Artistica libre in the Sala Pares in Barcelona. In 1898
he made his first trip to Paris and exhibited there, the same
year, at the Bare de Boutteville. After 1903 he did not re-
turn to Paris. He died in Barcelona at the age of thirty-seven.

In Barcelona between 1897 and 1901 the liveliest group of
younger artists and ivriters made a practice of gathering in
a cafe known as Els Quatre Gals. The company included
such figures as Miguel Vlrillo, Sebastian Junyer, Ramon
Casas, Santiago Rusinol. ISonell was one of the central fig-
ures of the group and the young Picasso also an active
member and exhibitor and admirer of ISonell seven years
his senior. In fact, when Picasso made his first visit to Paris
in 1900 ISonell loaned him his studio there.

While ISonelVs ivork is limited by the brevity of his life and
the loss of contact with Paris art developments, after 1903
it is characterized by an intensity of expression and an in-
terest in texture effects that is peculiarly Spanish, linking
it at once to the work of certain great predecessors— notably
that of Goya,s last years— and to the surface interests of the
younger Spanish painters of today.

Even in his oivn time his independence of foreign influence
tvas one of the features for which his art ivas admired. He
represented, for example, the opposite side of the field in

his day from Fortuny with his frank admiration for \leis-
sonier. For his contemporaries he represented a recall from
the confused and indeterminate expression that had grown
up in Catalan painting under the influence of French Im-
pressionism to the precise, concrete style characteristic of
Catalan painting.

Again in the restraint and austerity of ISonelPs palette may
be seen an anticipation of those qualities in early cubism
and of the quiet tonalities ivhich are evidently preferred by
the younger Spanish painters of today.

For, despite the superficial romantic cast of ISonell's early-
work, with its predominance of gypsy and beggar studies, his
evident lack of interest in varying his illustrative themes,
points to a basic concern with the exploitation of his artistic
medium towards the creation of fresh and individual pic-
torial forms. This is particularly notable in his stress on bold
brush work patterns in his oils from 1903 to 1908. A draped
female figure for ISonell was primarily a scaffolding on ichich
to construct a pattern of forms ivhich grew out of his per-
sonal handwriting and his arbitrary organization of color
strokes. In this sense, for all its apparent figurative charac-
ter, ISonell's painting is essentially linked to the abstract and
non-figurative researches that were to follow it. His icork is

already an embodiment of the credo "Art should be born of
the raw material and the tool and should keep the trace of
the tool and of the struggle between the tool and the mate-
rial. Man should speak, but the tool and the material should
speak also." And for the younger men in Spain today, in-
terested primarily in such expression, Nonell represents a
revered precursor.

This is the type of contemporary artist represented in the
present exhibition. Of the eighteen, the oldest of the group
is Manuel Viola born in 1919, the youngest, Rafael Canogar,
born in 1934. IS one of them ivas known outside Spain before
1946 and several of them are now shown in the United States
for the first time.

What is particularly striking about the work of the younger
Spanish artists is the variety of expression they achieve in
their pictures in spite of the fact that for the most part, they
limit themselves to an austere color gamut of browns, grays,
slates, gray greens and ochres so characteristic of Spanish
taste and, at the same time, concentrate principally on the
exploration of textural effects and on the suggestion of space
relationships through contrasts of picture surface. This vari-

ety is still more surprising when we consider that all these
eighteen are located in two urban centers, both relatively
small cities, Madrid and Barcelona. They are also thoroughly
aivare of the directives and suggestions their predecessors,
notably Picasso and Miro, offer and do not hesitate to
acknoivledge their debt to either of these artists. But in the
ivork of the younger men these influences are healthily as-
similated and have been personalized in the translation to
such an extent that they already point to fields of pictorial
exploration quite foreign to those worked by either of the
tivo older men.

Finally, what this apposition of the paintings of lsidro Nonell
with the art of the younger Spanish contemporaries of today
most surprisingly and effectively illustrates is the links which
both have ivith the enduring tradition of Spanish painting in
certain quarters where one might not normally look for such
a common denominator: namely, in their basic regard for
the material expression, in their pride of independence from
alien influence, in their chromatic constraint and under-
statement, in their concrete, pictorial, yet basically non-
illustrative, intensity.

James Johnson Sweeney

In addition to those who have lent paintings we wish on behalf of the President and Board
of Trustees of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to thank the following for their
suggestions, help and generous cooperation loivards making this exhibition possible:

His Excellency Jose M. de Areilza, Embassy of Spain, Washington, D.C.

Antonio Gallego Burin, Director General de Bellas Artes, Madrid

Jose Ruiz Morales, Director General de Relaciones Culturales, Madrid

Xavier de Salas, Director of the Institute of Spain, London

Antonio Espinosa, Cultural Counselor, Embassy of Spain, Washington, D.C.

Enrique Sudrez de Puga, Second Secretary, Embassy of Spain, Washington, D.C.

Jose Yergara, Industrial Attache, Embassy of Spain, Washington, D.C.

Donald Willard Mulligan, Assistant Cultural Attache, Embassy of the U.S.A., Madrid

Juan Ainaud de Lasarle, Director General of Art Museums, Barcelona

Fernando Chueca Goitia, Director, Museo de Arte Contempordneo, Madrid

Douglas Cooper Jose Luis Sen

Joan Prats Joan Miro

Mrs. Volenti Jose Guerrero

Antoni Tapies Eduardo Chillida

Josep Gudiol Jacques O'Hana

Luis Gonzales Robles Gerardo Rueda

Alexandre Cirici Pellicer J. J. Tharrats

ISIDRO XOXELL 1873-1911

Born 1873, Barcelona. Spent most of his life in Barcelona ex-
cept for short visits to Paris and Madrid. Studied in studios
of Mirabent, Martinez Altes and Graner, and with Caba in
the Casa Lonja. First exhibition Sala Pares, 1893, Barcelona.
1898 first trip to Paris. First exhibited in Paris 1898, at Le
Bare de Boutteville. An important figure in the Barcelona
group Els Quatre Gats. Died Barcelona, 1911. 1947, exhibi-
tion in homage to Nonell at Sala Barcino, Barcelona; 1954,
retrospective, Venice Biennale.

LANDSCAPE.

1894. Oil on canvas. 21% x 23%".

Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

WOMAN AND CHILD.

1897. Charcoal and watercolor, lOVz x 15W

Collection Ignaeio Masoliver, Barcelona.

DRAWING.

Inscribed "Al amich Pere Romeu". 1897. Charcoal, watercolor, crayon, 11% x 9%"

Collection Alberto Puig, Barcelona.

DRAWING.

1897. Charcoal and watercolor, 15 x lOVz" .

Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

DRAWING.

1897. Charcoal and watercolor, 15Vs x 10%".
Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

AT THE CHURCH DOOR.
1899. Oil on canvas, 197/s x 26".
Collection Jose Sala, Barcelona.

BEGGAR.

1899? Conte crayon, watercolor, ink, 15% x 8Vs".
Collection Domingo Carles, Barcelona.

GYPSY.

1903. Oil on canvas, 32 x 25Vz" .

Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

RED BLOUSE.

1903. Oil on canvas, 26 x 21%".

Collection Ignaeio Masoliver, Barcelona.

TWO GYPSIES.

1903. Oil on canvas, 53 x 53Vi".

Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

WATERCOLOR.

1903. Watercolor and charcoal, 15Vs x 133A".
Collection Ignaeio Masoliver, Barcelona.

GYPSY.

1904. Oil on board, 26% x 21%".

Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

HEAD OF A WOMAN.

1904. Oil on board, 26Vs x 21%".

Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

FATIGUE.

1904. Oil on canvas, 47Vix47Vi".
Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

CARMEN.

1905. Oil on canvas, 32 x 253A".

Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

AN GUST IAS.

1906. Oil on canvas, 26 x 21 Vz".
Collection Jose Sola, Barcelona.

GYPSY.

1906. Oil on canvas, 73Vs x 43%".

Collection Mrs. Blanca Bassas de Iturriagagoitia, Barcelona.

"LA CHATA".

1906. Oil on canvas, 19% x 24".

Collection Jose Sala, Barcelona.

SEATED FIGURE.

1906. Oil on canvas, 21 % x 18".

Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

SEATED FIGURE IN BLUE.

1906. Conte crayon and watercolor, 18% x 12Vi".

Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

HALF-LENGTH FIGURE.
1907. Oil on canvas, 28% x 23%".
Collection Alberto Puig, Barcelona.

HEAD.

1907. Oil on canvas, 24Vs x 19%".

Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

SEATED FIGURE IN BLUE.
1907. Oil on canvas, 39% x 31%".
Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

SOLEDAD.

1907. Oil on canvas, 21% x 17%".
Collection Mrs. Guarro, Barcelona.

FIGURE.

1908. Oil on canvas, 21% x 26".

Collection Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona.

HEAD (HIGH COIFFURE).

1908. Oil on canvas, 32 x 26".
Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

CARICATURE OF ARTIST WITH "LA CORALITA".

1909. Signed "Noe". Red conte crayon, HVi x 13%".
Collection Mrs. Blanca Bassas de Iturriagagoitia, Barcelona.

FIGURES.

1909. Signed "Noe". Ink and gouache, 12 x I7Vi".
Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

SEATED FIGURE IN RED.

1910. Oil on canvas, 39% x 31%".
Collection Miss Teresa Volenti, Barcelona.

EOVARDO ALCOY 1930-

Born in Barcelona; studied at technical school, Barcelona.
Member of Cercle Maillol of French Institute, Barcelona.
Founded the group Silex of the Salon de Mayo. 1955-59
exhibited in Spain. Participated in exhibition of group Inter-
Nos at III Spanish-American Biennial, Barcelona, 1955; "20
Years of Contemporary Spanish Painting", Palacio da Foz,
Lisbon, 1958-59; "Junge Spanische Maler," Basel, 1959.
Lives in Barcelona.

PAINTING 1/60.

1960. Oil on canvas, 45% x 32" .

Lent by the artist.

PAINTING 14/60.

1960. Oil on canvas, 25Vz x 36W

Lent by the artist.

RAFAEL CAXOGAR 1934-

Born in Toledo, Spain. Studied with Vazquez Diaz, 1948-53.
Group and one-man exhibitions in Europe and South Amer-
ica since 1952. Participated Spanish-American Biennial: II,
Havana, 1953; III, Barcelona, 1955; Venice Biennale, 1956,
1958; Pittsburgh International, 1958; Sao Paulo Bienal,
1959; "13 peintres espagnols actuels", Musee des Arts
Decoratifs, Paris, 1959. 1957 founded ivith other painters
and writers the group El Paso, which existed in Madrid until
1960. Lives in Madrid.

DESCABELLO.

September 1959. Oil on canvas, 78% x 59".

Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, Neiv York

PAINTING NO. 48.

September 1959. Oil on canvas, 78% x 59Vi".

Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, Neiv York.

REQUIEM.

September 1959. Oil on canvas, 64 x 51 Vz".

Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

PAINTING NO. 64.

1959. Oil on canvas, 51 Vi x 38Vi" .

Lent by the artist.

UNTITLED.

1959. Oil on canvas, 78Vz x 59".

Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

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MODEST CVMXART 1925-

Born in Barcelona, where he now lives. Studied at the Aca-
demic Libre d'Art. Began painting 1941. 1948 founding
member oj group and review Dau al Set, Barcelona. 1950-51,
Lyon and Paris. Participated in Pittsburgh International,
1958; Venice Biennale, 1958; II Documenta, Kassel, 1959;
Sao Paulo Bienal, 1959.

PYROGRAPHIC PANEL.

1956. Oil with gold on wood, 16 x 235/s".
Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

LARGE DRAWING.

1957. Mixed media on paper, 273A x 39%".
Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

PAINTING.

1959. Mixed media on canvas, 57% x 44%".
Collection Alex L. Hillman, New York.

PAINTING.

1959. Mixed media on canvas, 25% x 21 Vi".
Collection Alex L. Hillman, New York.

DAME DE HAUTES-RIVES.

January 1960. Mixed media on canvas, 39Vz x 32" .

Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

4 SEASONS.

1960. Mixed media on canvas, 39Vz x 32" .
Collection Rene Drouin, Paris.

VISCONTl.

I960. Mixed media on canvas, 36% x 28%".

Collection Rene Drouin, Paris.

FRANCESCO FARRERAS 1927-

Born in Barcelona. Studied in Murcia under Gomez Cano,
1941 ; Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Sta. Cruz de Tenerife,
Canaries, 1942; in Madrid at San Fernando School of Fine
Arts under Vazquez Diaz. Trips to Paris, London, The Neth-
erlands, Belgium. Studied ceramics in Paris. Participated in
Venice Biennale, 1954, 1958, I960; "Jonge Spaanse Kunst",
The Hague, Amsterdam and Utrecht, 1959; "Junge Spa-
nische Maler", Basel, 1959. Lives in Madrid.

NO. 49.

February 1960. Mixed media collage on wood, 24 x 19%".

Lent by the artist.

NO. 50.

February 1960. Mixed media collage on wood, 39% x 39%" .

Lent by the artist.

NO. 54.

March 1960. Mixed media collage on wood, 39Vt x 29%".

Lent by the artist.

LUIS FEMTO 1929-

Born in Madrid. Studied at Escuela de Artes y Oficios de
Sta. Cruz de Tenerife, Canaries, 1942; San Fernando School
of Fine Arts, Madrid, 1944-49. Received scholarships from
French and Spanish governments. Has exhibited extensively
in Europe and participated in group exhibitions including
Venice Biennale, 1956, 1958, 1960; Sao Paulo Bienal, 1957;
11 Documenta, Kassel, 1959; Premio Lissone, Milan, 1957,
1958 (prize-winner) ; "13 peintres espagnols actuels", Musee
des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 1959; "La Nueva Pintura de
Espana", Tooth Gallery, London, 1960. Lives in Paris.

NO. 104.

1959. Oil on canvas, 283A x 36".

Collection Jean-Robert Arnaud, Paris.

NO. 135.

1959. Oil with sand on canvas, 55 x 55".

Collection Galerie Arnaud, Paris.

NO. 138.

1959. Oil. with sand on canvas, 55 x 55".
Collection Galerie Arnaud, Paris.

NO. 173.

1960. Oil on canvas, 59 x 59".
Collection Galerie Arnaud, Paris.

NO. 175.

1960. Oil on canvas, 62% x 703A".

Collection The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

JVANA FHAXCES 1929-

Born in Alicante. Studied at San Fernando School of Fine
Arts, Madrid, 1944-49. Received scholarship from French
government, 1951, and from Spanish government, 1953. Trav-
eled in Europe, 1956. Member of El Paso group. One-man
and group exhibitions in Europe, including Venice Biennale,
1954, 1960; Spanish-American Biennial: I, Madrid, 1951;
II, Havana, 1953; III, Barcelona, 1955. Lives in Madrid.

PAINTING NO. 6.

1959. Oil with sand on canvas, 51% x 63V&"

Lent by the artist.

PAINTING NO. 35.

1959. Mixed media on canvas, 633A x 51Vs"
Lent by the artist.

PAINTING NO. 30.

1960. Mixed media on canvas, 39% x 31Vs"
Lent by the artist.

I i i lit (LVCMO MVSTOX) 1929-

Born in Madrid. Studied at San Fernando School of Fine
Arts, Madrid. Awarded government scholarship: lived for
a year in Paris and traveled in England, France and Italy-
One-man exhibitions since 1955. Took part in young Spanish
painters exhibitions in The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht,
Paris, Basel, 1959; London 1960. Lives in Madrid.

PAINTING 16.

1960. Mixed media on wood, 51% x 38%".

Lent by the artist.

MAXOLO Mli.I.XHKS 1926-

Born Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Self-taught. 1955 settled
in Madrid where he directs the art magazine Arqueros and
collaborates on others. Co-founder of Planas de Poesia, 1950;
El Paso group. Has had one-man exhibitions in the Canary
Islands, Madrid, Barcelona, Frankfurt, New York. Included
in Sao Paulo Bienal, 1957; Venice Biennale, 1956, 1958;
Spanish painters exhibitions in Lisbon, The Hague, Amster-
dam, Utrecht, Paris, Basel, 1959; London 1960.

PAINTING 40.

1958. Oil on burlap collage, 60Vs x 50Ys".
Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

PAINTING 61.

1959. Oil on burlap, 51V* x 63%".
Collection Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris.

PAINTING 65.

1959. Oil on burlap, 63% x 51 Vt".

Collection Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris.

PAINTING 74.

1959. Oil on burlap, 63% x 51 Vi".

Collection Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris.

PAINTING 76.

1959. Oil on burlap, 51V* x 63Vs".

Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

JUAN HERXAXitEZ Pt.JVAX 1931-

Botji in Barcelona, where he now lives. Studied painting in
School of Fine Arts, Barcelona and engraving and lithog-
raphy at Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Member of Cercle
Maillol; founding member of Asociacion de Artistas Actu-
ales and Salon de Mayo. Participated in II, III Spanish-
American Biennials; "20 Years of Contemporary Spanish
Painting", Lisbon, 1959; Venice Biennale, 1960.

PAINTING 113-60.

February 1960. Oil on canvas, 25Vz x 39Vi".

Lent by the artist.

PAINTING 125-60.

March 1960. Oil on canvas, 38 x 51" .

Lent by the artist.

CARLOS PLANEEL 1927-

Born in Barcelona. Member of Cercle Maillol and group
Silex. Founder of Asociacion de Artistas Actuates group and
founding member of Salon de Mayo. Since 1953 has par-
ticipated in many exhibitions including III Spanish-Ameri-
can Biennial, 1955. Work shown in New York, Petite Gallery,
1956. Paintings owned by private collectors as well as Museo
de Arte Contempordneo, Madrid.

1W0.

Mixed media on pressed wood, 39Vi x 28%"
Lent by the artist.

MAIM EL It I VI. It 1 1927-

Born in Granada. Studied at School of Fine Arts oj St.
Elizabeth oj Hungary, Seville. 1951 to Madrid. Co-founder
of group, El Paso. Exhibited in: I, II, III Spanish- American
Biennials; Sao Paulo Bienal, 1957; Venice Biennale, 1958;
young Spanish painters exhibitions in Lisbon, The Hague,
Amsterdam, Utrecht, Paris, Basel, 1959. Special mention,
Premio Lissone, Milan, 1959. Lives in Madrid.

METAMORPHOSIS-BLAZON.

1960. Painted wire mesh mounted on plywood, 22Vz x 37V2".

Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

METAMORPHOSIS-MIRROR.

I960. Painted wire mesh in aluminum frame, 31Vt x 23".

Collection The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

METAMORPHOSIS-SMALL SUN.

I960. Painted wire mesh in aluminum frame, 23V$ x 19" .

Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

METAMORPHOSIS-TIME.

1960. Painted wire mesh mounted on plywood, 28Vi x 44%" .
Collection Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York.

ANTOKMO SAI'HA 1930-

Born in Huesca, Spain. Self-taught. Began painting in 1947.
1953-55 Paris. Co-founder of group El Paso. Published Pro-
gramio, 1951, Espacio y gesto, 1959. First one-man exhibi-
tion, Madrid, 1951. Group exhibitions: Pittsburgh Interna-
tional, 1951, 1958; Venice Biennale, 1956, 1958; Premio
Lissone, Milan, 1959 (acquisition prize); Spanish exhibi-
tions in Paris, Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, 1959; Lon-
don 1960.

UNTITLED.

1958. Oil on canvas, 23% x 28%".
Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

AD10S.

1959. Oil on canvas, 633A x 51".

Collection The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

LARGE RECLINING NUDE.
1959-60. Oil on canvas, 76V& x 98%".
Private collection, Barcelona.

AGNES.

1960. Oil on canvas, 51 Ya x 38Vs".
Private collection, Madrid.

INFANTA II.

1960. Oil on canvas, 63% x 51V&".

Collection Claude Vulliet, Buchillon, Switzerland.

ANTONIO SVAHEX 1923-

Born Gijon, Spain. Self-taught. 1947 first exhibit in Gijon.
To Madrid, where he exhibited at the Buchhoh Gallery,
1950. 1950-53 Paris. Received travel prizes from Gijon and
from Spanish government. Member of El Paso. Group ex-
hibitions: Venice Biennale, 1958; Sao Paulo Bienal, 1959;
young Spanish painters exhibitions in Lisbon, The Hague,
Amsterdam, Utrecht, Paris and Basel, 1959. Lives in Madrid.

NO. 1.

1960. Oil and aluminum paint on canvas, 35 x 45%" .

Lent by the artist.

NO. 2.

1960. Oil on canvas, 31% x 25Vi".

Lent by the artist.

NO. 3.

1960. Oil and aluminum paint on canvas, 25Vi x 31%" .

Lent by the artist.

UNTITLED.

1960. Oil and aluminum paint on canvas, 36% x 28%".

Lent by the artist.

A ATOM TAPIES 1923-

Born in Barcelona. 1946 gave up law studies to devote
himself exclusively to painting. Self-taught. 1948 co-founder
of group and review Dau al Set in Barcelona. 1950 to Paris
on French government scholarship. 1950, first one-man shoiv,
Barcelona. 1953, visited United States. Included .in Sao
Paulo Bienal, 1953 (purchase prize) ; Premio Lissone, Milan,
1957; Venice Biennale, 1958 (two prizes); Pittsburgh Inter-
national, 1950, 1952, 1955, 1958 (first prize) ; Spanish exhibi-
tions in Basel, 1959; London 1960.

yellow:

1954. Oil on canvas, 57% x 38Vi".
Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

PAINTING.

1955. Oil with sand on canvas, 51Vs x 63%".
Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

PAINTING.

August 1959. Oil and sand on canvas, 18% x 22" .

Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

BROWN ON BLACK.

1959. Oil and sand on canvas, 51 Vs x 633A"

Collection The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

PAINTING.

1959. Oil and sand on canvas, 21 Vi x 32" .

Collection Rene P. Metros, Barcelona.

WHITE RELIEF WITH CROSSES.
1959. Oil and sand on canvas, 63% x 51Vi" .
Collection Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.

VICENTE VELA 1931-

Born Jerez de la Frontera (Cadiz). Studied at School of
Fine Arts of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Seville, and Academy
oj San Fernando, Madrid. Won a prize from the Deputation
oj Cadiz. Trips to France and Italy. One-man exhibitions
Madrid and Barcelona, 1958. Participated in Venice Bien-
nale, 1958; International Exhibition, Tokyo, 1959; young
Spanish painters exhibitions in Lisbon and Paris, 1959. Lives
in Madrid.

PAINTING.

1960. Oil with sand on canvas, 32 x 45%"

Lent by the artist.

JVAX VILA CASAS 1920-

Born Sabadell, Barcelona. Studied at School oj Fine Arts,
Sabadell, where he first exhibited, 1942. Visited Paris, 1949;
began engraving and ceramics. Has written articles on paint-
ing and two books, Escrits and Sis Contes. Numerous one-
man exhibitions; represented in II, III Spanish- American
Biennials; Spanish exhibition at Tooth Gallery, London,
1960. Executed two ceramic panels for Savings Bank, Saba-
dell, 1958. Lives in Barcelona.

PLANIMETR1A 54.

Barcelona, 1960. Mixed media on canvas, 38 x 5IVb".

Collection Sola Gaspar, Barcelona.

PLANIMETRIA 56.

1960. Oil on canvas, 51 Vt x 633A".

Collection Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.

PLANIMETRIA 91.

1960. Mixed media on canvas, 51 Vi x 77" .
Collection Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.

MAXVEL VIOLA 1919-

Born in Saragossa. Self-taught. 1935 founded review Art,
Lerida. Associated with group ADLAN, Barcelona, 1936.
1939-48 Paris. Exhibited with group Escuela espahola de
Paris. Invited to International Exposition of Modern Art,
organized by UNESCO, 1948. 1949 settled in Madrid. First
one-man show, Madrid 1953. Included in Premio Lissone,
Milan, 1959; Sao Paulo Bienal, 1959; young Spanish paint-
ers exhibitions in Lisbon, The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht,
Paris, Basel, 1959. Lives in Madrid.

BURNED SONG.

I960. Oil on canvas, 59Vs x 51 Vi".

Collection Walter S. Goodhue, Alexandria, Virginia.

THE PENITENT.

1960. Oil on canvas, 723A x 39Va".

Collection Walter S. Goodhue, Alexandria, Virginia.

VARIATION ON A MARTINET.
I960. Oil on canvas, 51 Vi x 38Vi".
Lent by the artist.

FERXAXDO ZOBEL 1924-

Born in Manila, Philippines. Studied in Spain, Philippines,
and United States. First one-man show, Boston, 1950. Group
shows throughout the world; first prize in National Exhibi-
tion of Philippine Art, 1952, 1955, 1956. First one-man ex-
hibition in Spain: Madrid, 1959. Included in young Spanish
painters exhibition in Basel, 1959. Lives in Madrid.

HISTONIUM.

July 26, 1959. Oil on canvas, 32V& x 39%".

Lent by the artist.

ILICI.

July 26, 1959. Oil on canvas, 32 x 39Vi".

Lent by the artist.

OSCAN.

July 29, 1959. Oil on canvas, 51Vs x 76%".

Lent by the artist.

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John J. Tceling

Photographs: 1, 2, 6 Ezra Stoller; 3, 5 Herbert Matter: 4 Robert E. Mates

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